82.The Conflicted Heart

Mia

When I was young, mum told me that I had to drink milk and eggs even though I didn't like it then. I had asked her why I had to and she had explained that I needed to if I wanted to grow as a healthy child.

It hadn't been easy eating eggs and drinking milk then because I loved to eat rice. I would eat rice everyday in a week without minding but mum had minded. She had felt I wasn't doing what was right and had been on my case till I had believed in what she had said.

Doing what she said was right for me instead of what I would have loved to do was a hard decision but I did it and was really glad that I did. I did turn out well and as I grew up and learned how to read, I realized that I couldn't have survived on rice alone.

I thought of what Albert told me on phone that my life had become messed up because I had been marked and I was not going to be able to settle with the other men because of it. I knew he was right and had no reason to lie to me - heck, he was the last person who